Technology

6 online shopping apps Indonesians can’t live without

“Whoever said money doesn’t buy you happiness didn’t know where to shop” – Blair Waldorf The number of Internet users in Indonesia has increased since the technology was introduced in the 1980s. A study released by “We Are Social” reported that by the end of 2014, the number of active internet users in Indonesia had...

by Dimas Fattahillah
Tag: Android
01-Dec-2015

Android, Connected TV

An Introduction to Android TV

This blog will introduce you to Android TV platform from what android TV is, How it is different from Android mobile development and finally how to create an Android TV app. Note: This blog  is just the introduction to the Android TV  not a full coverage of Android TV development.What is Android TV ? Android TV was introduced in...

by Bharat Ghimire
Tag: Android
10-Nov-2015

Android, Mobility

mailto links on android devices

Recently we added a feature that uses the mailto link. While testing it was found that working fine on Desktops, iPhones, and iPad's but not on android devices. To debug it quickly, we created a test page with just mailto link in it as shown below <a href="mailto:someone@example.com?Subject=Hello%20again" target="_blank">Send...

by Parampreet Singh
Tag: Android
02-Sep-2015

Android, Mobility

Shared Preferences in Android

Shared Preferences in Android Android Prefereces provide a way to store user and application data in device. It stores primitive data including String objects in key-value pairs. There are several ways to store data in android: Preferences(Shared and User): Store private primitive data in key-value pairs. Internal Storage: ...

by Akhilesh Dubey
Tag: Android
04-Aug-2015

Android, Grails

Push Notification in Android Using Grails

Hi All, I had a use case where I need to send the push notification to Android Device using Grails Application. For sending push notification I have used the Android GCM plugin. So, before going further we should know what is push notification and how it works. Push Notification : It is a message or events delivered by a...

by madhav.khanna
Tag: Android
31-Jul-2015

Android, Mobility

Creating Android Application with Groovy

Groovy 2.4 was released in January 2015, with native support for Android development. It allows to write Android applications fully using Groovy. Running Groovy on Android Step 1: Create a new Android project in Android Studio Step 2: Open this build.gradle (Module: app) file: Insert the following code before the first line: ...

by Simranjit Kour
Tag: Android
23-Jul-2015

AWS, Technology

AWS Device Farm: A service to test mobile apps on real devices

AWS Device Farms Device Farms is a recently introduced service that can test mobile apps on real devices in the AWS Cloud. Currently, it supports Android and Fire OS apps. This service can be used to improve the quality of testing by running the test on real smartphones and tablets with different hardware, OS versions and form factors. ...

by Ankit Giri
Tag: Android
10-Jul-2015

Grails

Day 2 @GR8Conf EU 2015

Day 2 at GR8Conf EU June 2015 Copenhagen, Denmark continued to beintriguing and fun filled. The Day started with the keynote from Jeff Scott Brown on Grails and its future plan. He shed light on Grails 3.0 features and its releases plans. He also asked for contribution to migrating plugins from Grails 2.x to Grails 3.0.  In his...

by Sachin Verma
Tag: Android
05-Jun-2015

Android

Updating ViewPager With New Data Dynamically

ViewPager is a layout manager that allows users to flip and view pages left and right. It is used in conjunction with PagerAdapter,  FragmentPagerAdapter or FragmentStatePagerAdapter. We attach adapter consisting of either Fragment objects or simple View objects. Note: You can download source code of a sample application from...

by Noor Alam
Tag: Android
24-Apr-2015

Android

SQLite Locking and Transaction Handling in Android

SQLite locking concept comes when we access database from multiple threads. What things should we keep in our mind while designing the database in android, let's see. firstly we create a helper class which extends SQLiteHelper class: [code language="java"] public class DatabaseHelper extends SQLiteOpenHelper { ... } [/code] Now...

by Akhilesh Dubey
Tag: Android
19-Apr-2015

Android

Android APK Expansion files

Google Play allows max 50 MB of APK size for any android application. But in many cases in projects where we use large number of images and media files such as sound and videos, the APK size grows beyond 50 MB limit. Google play now provide facility of uploading two more files called "APK Expansion Files". Each of these two files...

by Noor Alam
Tag: Android
11-Jan-2015

Android

Debugging Javascript on Android using Chrome

Nowadays almost all applications that we develop are made mobile friendly and a lot of times, everything works perfectly on desktop browsers but not on mobile. Even if we know it is some javascript that is not working as expected, it becomes quite difficult to narrow down on what is causing problem. As we cannot check console there, I...

by Vivek Sachdeva
Tag: Android
30-Nov-2014